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The Role of School Friendship Stability, Instability, and Network Size in Early Adolescents' Social Adjustment
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Ferguson, Sharlyn; Brass, Nicole R.; Medina, Michael A.; Ryan, Allison M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
This study examined longitudinal associations between early adolescents' school friendship stability, instability, and network size and their perceived social adjustment. The final sample consisted of 430 early adolescents residing in seven Midwestern schools (52% female, 47% Black, 42% White, 5% Hispanic or Latinx, and 6% Other). School…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Friendship, Social Networks, Social Adjustment
Validation of the Korean Version of Social Achievement Goals for Adolescents: Paths from Social Achievement Goals through Social Behaviour to Social Adjustment
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Choi, Boungho; Park, Soowon – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2018
The purpose of this study is to translate and validate the Korean version of the social achievement goals scale, which is known to be a significant variable in predicting social behaviour and social adjustments. There were 133 seventh grade middle school students (male = 64, female = 69) who took part in Study 1, and 425 seventh to eighth grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Goal Orientation
Examining the Distinctiveness and the Socio-Emotional Correlates of Anxious-Withdrawal and Unsociability during Early Adolescence in Finland
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Ojanen, Tiina; Findley-Van Nostrand, Danielle; Bowker, Julie C.; Markovic, Andrea – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
This study examined the distinctiveness of and the correlates associated with anxious-withdrawal and unsociability during early adolescence in Finland (N = 384; 12-14 years; 53% girls). As expected, confirmatory factor analyses revealed that anxious-withdrawal and unsociability were distinct and moderately positively correlated constructs. Only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Correlation, Withdrawal (Psychology)
Motivation and Perceived Control in Early Adolescent Friendships: Relations with Self-, Friend-, and Peer-Reported Adjustment
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Ojanen, Tiina; Stratman, Aaron; Card, Noel A.; Little, Todd D. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2013
Motivation is assumed to influence behaviors via perceived agency over goal pursuits, but empirical research integrating motivation and action-control processes in social development is close to nonexistent. We applied this perspective to the study of early adolescent friendships by examining motivation for and perceived control (ability and…
Descriptors: Motivation, Friendship, Early Adolescents, Emotional Adjustment
Reading Comprehension & Social Information Processing of Students with and without Learning Disabilities
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Kessler, Michele Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Students with learning disabilities (LD) often struggle with reading comprehension (Shaywitz, 2003), even after attaining basic decoding skills. Similar proportions of students with LD have also been found to differ from their typical peers in some aspect of social adjustment (Kavale & Forness, 1996). Yet there is very little known about the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cues, Learning Disabilities, Social Adjustment
Learned Social Hopelessness: The Role of Explanatory Style in Predicting Social Support during Adolescence
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Ciarrochi, Joseph; Heaven, Patrick C. L. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2008
Background: Almost no research has examined the impact of explanatory style on social adjustment. We hypothesised that adolescents with a pessimistic style would be less likely to develop and maintain social support networks. Methods: Seven hundred and nineteen students (351 males and 366 females; 2 unknown; M[subscript AGE] = 12.28, SD = 0.49)…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Grades (Scholastic), Adolescents, Social Adjustment